Fortunately they aren't 2000 lbs.....

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Originally posted by Macifej:
Fortunately they aren't 2000 lbs.....

Or even 200-lbs!!

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Or even 200-lbs!!

No problem...I'm 200 and I think I could take em!!

We came across a honey badger that had killed about a 3 foot monitor lizard while hunting nyala along a dense dry riverbed one morning in KZN. As always, I ran off and left the camera in the truck. When I first heard him, he wasn't but about 15 yards away travelling the same direction we were headed. He kept coing until he got down wind of us, looked in our direction, dropped his breakfast and hauled ass. We followed/tracked him about 50-100 yards when we saw him coming back for his meal. He smelled us again and took off, never to be seen by us again. Really a neat animal.

Reminds me of my ex-sister in law...

This Badger is tough, but Karl Stumpfe

is TOUGHER based on HIS recent
bare handed kill!!!

It would be an interesting animal to hunt.

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Originally posted by Macifej:

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Or even 200-lbs!!

No problem...I'm 200 and I think I could take em!!

I'd pay heavily to watch that match!

KG:

OK, I may be a Yankee fan but I am appealing for confirmation of something. (Remember we did knock off Tampa Bay a few times and that helps Boston right now,right?) Is that a badger? (Being from our part of the country I never saw one) I always heard that the badger was hell on wheels in a fight. Now I love him! -because he kills snakes -and I was bitten by a copperhead at age 6 -so I never have been too fond of that part of the reptile kingdom.

Regards

Gerry

We came within a few yards of one in Chirisa while driving in the truck.I should have taken a zoom camera lens with me that way I would have taken a picture.

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I'd pay heavily to watch that match!

Odds..??

Do I get any "weapons" or just my razor sharp wit...??

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Originally posted by Macifej:

Do I get any "weapons" or just my razor sharp wit...??

I think you better select a weapon, your wit is getting a little dull, if you fight that thing with your bare hands!

They're a great animal to hunt, and they make a great trophy.

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Originally posted by Macifej:

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I'd pay heavily to watch that match!

Odds..??

Do I get any "weapons" or just my razor sharp wit...??

Just what a PH needs! A badger that developed a taste for white hunters!!

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Originally posted by MacD37:

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Originally posted by Macifej:

Do I get any "weapons" or just my razor sharp wit...??

I think you better select a weapon, your wit is getting a little dull, if you fight that thing with your bare hands!

I've selected my weapon MacD..!! I'm ready when you have located a willing Badger..!! Should you phone Don King so your Badger has proper representation..??

..."There is a bloody brave little animal called the honey badger in Africa. It may be the meanest animal in the world. It kills for malice and for sport, and it does not go for the jugular---it goes straight for the groin. It has a lot in common with the modern American woman."

Robert Ruark

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Originally posted by tsibindi:
..."There is a bloody brave little animal called the honey badger in Africa. It may be the meanest animal in the world. It kills for malice and for sport, and it does not go for the jugular---it goes straight for the groin. It has a lot in common with the modern American woman."

Robert Ruark

With all due respect to Ruark, he forgets his roots a bit, if his rating isn't limited to mammals. Being from the Carolinas (if memory serves), no doubt he has tangled with bluefish. I don't know who to credit with the following saying, but it's the truth, Ruth:

"If bluefish grew to 200 lbs. and could figure out a way to walk and breathe, they'd rule the Earth!"

KG

I love them- and most particularly their attitude to life. Nothing worries them and they do not let imagined fears get in the way of enjoying life.

They are not going to walk around anyone and not going to run. If somebody is looking for a fight they will get it, but he isn;t going to pick it. Watch them arround lion, elephant or Hyaens. They just get on with whatever they are doing and the big boys generaly stay out of their way, or even, step right over them, pretending not to notice them.

I have never seen it but some of my parks staff have- when a young lion decides to show a badger who is king of the jungle. The lion invarably wins, but the badger dies gamely teaching him a valuable lifes lesson - Don't f#$^ with a honey badger! If the lion surves his injuries (not always a given), in future he will step over a badger rather make an effort to show his superiority.

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Originally posted by Macifej:

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Or even 200-lbs!!

No problem...I'm 200 and I think I could take em!!

You know, what the heck. Ya might as well try. Up here we don't have badgers, we have a cousin called the wolverine. I'm sure with a good training regimene, you'll do well!

I read Ruark's "The Honey Badger" years ago. Personally, I agree with him 100%.